Happy Award Recipients
2023-2024
| Recipients | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| BREC Farr Park Equestrian Center Hearts & Hooves Program | Community Partner; Wren Brumfield, Riding Instructor; Camille Chapman, Education Program Specialist; Charles "Bo" Jones, Farr Park Volunteer of the Year; Afnan Mansour, Riding Instructor; Melissa Wood, Special Interest Facility Manager |
| Jennifer Cramer | Director, T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History |
| Ashton Dalton | Senior, Animal Sciences |
| Emily Demps | Senior, Management |
| LSU Football in Senegal Study Abroad | Faculty, staff, and student S-L partnership |
| Saylor Higgins | Senior, Animal Sciences |
| Dr. Elaine Maccio | Associate Professor, Associate Director and MSW Program Director, LSU School of Social Work, College of Human Sciences and Education |
| Dr. Langley McClay | Director, LSU Pre-College Programs and Future Scholars, Office of Enrollment Management & Student Success |
| S-L Partnership between Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency (LOPA) and LSU | Community partner and faculty,; Alisa Prather, Associate, Harris, Deville & Associates; Lori Steele, Community Educator & Media Specialist, LOPA; Sadie Wilks, Instructor, Manship School of Mass Communication |
| Dr. Danielle Thomas | Instructor, Sociology, College of Humanities and Social Sciences |
2022-2023
| Recipients | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Dr. Jennifer Baumgartner | Associate Professor, LSU School of Education, College of Human Sciences and Education |
| Renée Boutte Myer | Assistant Dean for Advocacy, Collaboration & Engagement, College of Human Sciences and Education |
| Dr. Oliver Crocco | Assistant Professor, LSU School of Leadership and Human Resource Development, College of Human Sciences and Education |
| Justin Martin | Graduate student, LSU Department of History, College of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Angel Puder | Senior, Political Science and African & African American Studies |
| Cindy Seghers | Director of Career Development, LSU Ogden Honors College |
| Franklin Parish Economic Development | Community Partner; Sam Sheppard, Carmen Sims, and Sandy Robinson |
| Phillip St. Cyr | Community Partner; Youth City Lab Youth Council Coordinator, Front Yard Bikes |
| Joennis Reyes | Junior, Biological Engineering |
| Kelli Webber | Associate Registrar for Courses and Curricula, LSU Office of the University Registrar |
2021-2022
| Recipients | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Dr. Kevin Bongiorni | Ubaye Valley Professor of French Studies & Lillian Defelice and Sampson J. Petit Professorship in French for Business, College of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Dr. Cassandra Chaney | J. Franklin Bayhi Endowed Professor, School of Social Work, College of Human Sciences and Education |
| Dr. Murelle G. Harrison | The Gardere Initiative Executive Director |
| Lauren Hynson | Senior, Biological Engineering |
| The Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired & The Louisiana School for the Deaf (LSVI & LALSD) | Community Partners |
| Seija Meaux | Senior, Geology |
| Dr. Darica Simon | Baton Rouge Community College Upward Bound TRiO Program Director |
| Kennedy Simon | Senior, Psychology |
| Ashton Weber | Senior, Biological Engineering |
| Dr. Chun Yang | Darlene and Thomas O. Ryder Professor, Manship School of Mass Communications |
2020-2021
| Recipients | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Dr. Dorin Boldor | LSU Biological & Agricultural Engineering (BAE) Associate Professor & Charles P. Siess Jr. Professor |
| Dr. Cynthia DiCarlo | W.H. "Bill" LeBlanc Endowed Alumni Professor and Executive Director at the LSU Early Childhood Education Laboratory Preschool |
| Dr. Janene Grodesky | LSU School of Kinesiology Instructor & Coordinator of Physical Activity & Health |
| Dr. Erin Richard | LSU Leadership and Human Resource Development Assistant Professor |
| Beyond Gymnastics | Community Partner |
| Sexual Trauma Awareness & Response (STAR) | Community Partner |
| Jacob Brumfield | LSU Campus Life Director |
| Audrey Barton | Senior, Interdisciplinary Studies |
| Brendan Cummings | Senior, Mass Communications |
| Ashlyn Suchand | Senior, Psychology and English |
2019-2020
| Recipients | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Holly Annison & Patrick Newcomb | Associate Registrar and Assistant Registrar for Courses and Curricula (respectively), LSU Registrar |
| Troy Robertson | Assistant Director of Information and Technology, University College |
| Laurie Drummond | Instructor, English |
| Laurie Font | Former Volunteer Coordinator, Companion Animal Alliance |
| Harli Lockhart | Senior, Dual Certification in Elementary and Special Education |
| Mae Anne Mangaoil | Senior, Chemical Engineering |
| Caila Palmer | Senior, Psychology |
| Nicholas "Nick" Totaro | Instructor, and Undergraduate Program Coordinator, Biological and Agricultural Engineering |
| St. James Place | Community Partner |
2018-2019
| Column 1 Heading | Column 2 Heading |
|---|---|
| Dr. Jinx C. Broussard | Professor, Manship School of Mass Communication |
| Randa Lopez Morgan & David Dunaway | LSU Libraries |
| Tia Jordan | Senior, English |
| Mary Ellen Day | Community Partner, Physical Science Teacher, Iberville Math, Science and Arts Academy |
| Sadie Wilks | Instructor, Manship School of Mass Communication |
| Samantha Aldridge | Junior, Sociology |
| Maria Musso | Junior, Music Education |
| Stephanie Elwood | Extension Associate with the Community School Garden Programs at Southern University Ag Center |
| Katherine McKenzie | Science Teacher, Louisiana School for the Visually Impaired (LSVI) |
| Kathy Coleman | Community Partner, Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Information Center of Louisiana |
2017-2018
| Recipients | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Chloe Riviere | Senior, Political Science and International Studies |
| Alexandra Williams | CCELL Graduate Assistant |
| Knock Knock Children's Museum | Cate Heroman & Peter Olson |
| Sarah Gaurisco Swanner | Friends of the Animals |
| Kameryn Poullard | Junior, Child and Family Studies |
| Ollie Doucette | Baton Rouge Garden Alliance/Garden of Champions |
| Elizabeth Sherman | Junior, Biological Sciences |
| John White | Professor, Oceanography and Coastal Sciences |
| Estanislado (Stan) Barrera IV | Assistant Professor, School of Education |
| Irina Shport | Assistant Professor, Department of English |
2016-2017
| Recipients | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Jun Zou | Associate Professor, School of Interior Design |
| Kim Skinner | Assistant Professor, School of Education |
| Sarah Christian | Sophomore, Honors College, Psychology |
| Alejandra Torres | Graduate Student, Department of English |
| Grady Stewart | Junior, Mass Communication |
| Alzheimer’s Service of the Capital Area | Community Partner |
| Rick Moreland | Professor, Department of English |
| Paula Shaw | Companion Animal Alliance |
| Dustin LaFont | Front Yard Bikes |
| Josh Dean | Assistant Director for Service, Campus Life |
2015
| Recipients | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| James Honeycutt | Professor, Communication Studies |
| Victoria Cantelli | Senior, Kinesiology |
| Kenneth Fasching-Varner | Associate Professor, School of Education, College of Human Sciences and Education |
| Jensen Moore | Assistant Professor, Manship School of Mass Communication |
| Chauncey Stephens | Senior, Elementary Grades Education |
| Tony J. Pryer and Judy K. Bethly | Volunteers In Public Schools |
| Katelyn McCoy & Eric Brown |
CCELL Student Workers |
| Barry Aronhime | Instructor, Biological Sciences, College of Science |
| Kurt Ristroph | Senior, Chemical Engineering & Classical Civilizations |
| Aldreamer Smith | Baton Rouge Garden Alliance |
2014
| Recipients | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Christy Foreman | Former Faculty (retired), English |
| Paige Davis | Faculty, Construction Management |
| Theresa Townsend | Leo S. Butler Center |
| Melissa Bellow | Carver Branch Library |
| Mina Posey | McKinley High School |
| Judy Myhand | Faculty, Nutrition & Food Sciences |
| Christy Kayser Arrazette | Director of Center for Community & Civic Engagement at USM |
| Lori Martin | Faculty, Sociology |
| Christopher Miguez | Student, Kinesiology |
| Whitney Miller | Student, Nutrition & Food Sciences |
2013
| Recipients | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Joyce Jackson | Associate Professor, Geography & Anthropology and African American Studies |
| Jeffery Nunn | Andrew Clinton Pereboom Alumni Professor, Geology & Geophysics |
| Andrea Morris | Associate Professor, Foreign Languages & Literatures |
| Debra Kopsco & Stephanie Kurtz | Instructors, Mathematics |
| Linda Cross | Student, Honors College, Biological Enginneering |
| Mary Stein | Assistant Library Director, East Baton Rouge Library |
| Kevin Lewis | Supervisor, Operations Pathways |
| BREC | Community Partner, Claire Coco |
| Chaiss Matthews | Student, Honors College, Biological Sciences |
| Ciera Duronslet & Marshal Moulis | Chemistry PhD Students |
2012
| Recipients | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Alma Dawson | Russell B. Long Professor, Library & Information Science |
| Lisa Johnson | Assistant Professor, Kinesiology |
| Younghee Lim | Associate Professor, Social Work |
| John Scalzo | Instructor, Electrical Engineering |
| Yejun Wu | Assistant professor, Library & Information Science |
| Connections for Life | Community Partner, Karen Stagg |
| Highland Elementary School | Community Partner, Kaye Van Sickle |
| Betsy Irvine | Executive Director, Louisiana Delta Service Corps |
| Sandy Joslyn | MPA Student |
| Mary Hannah Prevot | Art Student |
2011
| Recipients | Affiliation |
|---|---|
| Sharon Andrews | Instructor, English |
| Hope Diwan | Everyone Reads and VIPS |
| Jennifer Jolly | Assistant Professor, Educational Theory, Policy and Practice |
| Barrett Kennedy | Faculty, Architecture |
| University Presbyterian Church | University Outreach Ministry |
| Summer Steib | Director of Education and Training, Capital Area Family Violence Intervention Center |
| LSU Student Govenment | |
| Nicole Walker | Student, Biological Engineering |
| Millena Williams | Student, Mass Communication |
| Partnership between Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and LSU | Pat Robinson and Dot Thibodeaux (GRG), Ann Martin and Deborah Normand (LSU) |